Italy's biggest union, the CGIL, said Wednesday that it has written to the European Commission asking it to withdraw approval ...

Zoom into a map of Italy and you will notice a gap ... Something about bridges The bridge along the Messina Strait is “Italy’s Apollo project,” Francesco Costa, a Sicilian podcaster, told ...

The 3/4-inch (1.9-cm)-wide slackline stretched across the Messina Strait – a body of water known as the "ship killer" – between Italy and Sicily. A Google satellite map showing the route of ...

Barely a year after earning the crown, however, Italy may be stepping up to construct ... tackling a bridge that would cross the Strait of Messina to connect the island of Sicily with the mainland.

Marni Rose McFall is a Newsweek reporter based in London, U.K. Her focus is on internet trends, U.S. politics and popular culture. She has covered fashion, culture, art and music extensively.

“The bridge over the Strait of Messina is a project that can break ground immediately ... Salvini is fond of saying it will cost more “not to build the bridge than build it.” Southern Italy is prone ...

Construction of the long-stalled suspension bridge between Sicily and mainland Italy ... other ‘Messina Style’ bridges built worldwide, it is now time to build the one over the Strait of ...

The bridge over the Strait of Messina, due to connect southern Italy with Sicily in 2017, is a pet project of Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi. Construction of the massive structure is ...

On December 28, 1908, at approximately 5:20am, Europe's most powerful earthquake shook southern Italy. Centered in the Messina Strait, which separates Sicily from Calabria, the quake's magnitude ...